Category Archives: adventuresinbraintumors

Today marks the two year anniversary since I had the whole tumor scare. I'm feeling great and almost back to full health but the anniversary is bittersweet since by some strange coincidence, today also marked the date of my mother's funeral, which I've talked about a bit on Twitter, but I don't think I've mentioned …

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A year ago today, I had the surprise of my life. Thanks to Charlie Park, you can relive the outpouring of support I described in my first post about the diagnosis on the site mathowielove (along with this explanation of it). I get a lot of email from people with similar health issues and from friends …

Continue reading “One year later, and some updates”

Today I got to see images from my most recent (and third) MRI brain scan and with it, the first not-great news to date. While my second MRI showed extraordinary promise with a near 50% reduction in tumor size, and over the past few months I've experienced a return in many of my hormone levels, …

Continue reading “Adventures in brain tumors: My first not-good news”

It's been a while since I've posted a health update, but I've been going through tests every 3-4 weeks for the past six months and each time I'd tell myself I should make a post after the next set of results, but never ended up posting about it. The long-story-short is that I'm happy to …

Continue reading “Adventures in brain tumors: 90% good”

Earlier today I did a full scan of my brain via an MRI procedure. It wasn't as bad as I thought, and I even got to listen to music for most of the procedure (and the radiology dude commented at the end "Nice tunes dude. Tapes 'n Tapes? Love that album"). In the past couple …

Continue reading “Adventures in brain tumors: Hormone Medications FTW!”

Another week, another set of appointments. This week I did a long appointment with an eye doctor, had an ultrasound of my heart, and then checkups with my neuro surgeon/endocrinologist. The eye appointment was excruciating as it involved many dilation drops over a period of around three hours. Once per hour I'd see the doctor …

Continue reading “Adventures in brain tumors: some ups, some downs”

I wish I had a copy of the images to show you, because they're kind of amazing. Imagine a cross-section shot of a head and what isn't brain, is tumor. In the small gap at the base of the brain, there it is, and it's huge. Tumor, all of it. So large you can't see …

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